Good afternoon Urth

Marc Aramini · 19 Nov 2017, 14:32 · from 2017-November.txt.gz

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From: marcaramini at gmail.com (Marc Aramini)
Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2017 14:32:35 -0000
Subject: (urth) Good afternoon Urth
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Thanks for all of this, Gwern. I look forward to looking to looking it over
soon!

On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 9:21 AM, Gwern Branwen <gwern at gwern.net> wrote:

>
>
> How fun.
>
> Not that you need the suggestion, but one of my favorite books is all
> about this theme of warfare and competitive pressures of various kinds
> pushing (and corrupting) science/technology and is about the
> post-Manhattan Project nuclear laboratories: Carter Scholz's 2002
> novel _Radiance_. (I hesitate to label it 'science fiction', even
> though Scholz is usually considered one and his last novel was
> unambiguously SF, because it's so based on real events and SDI.)
>
> I have an annotated transcription & scans at
> https://www.gwern.net/docs/radiance/2002-scholz-radiance along with
> supporting materials, some of which are quite interesting in their own
> right, for example, Greg Benford's memoirs "Old Legends" (
> https://www.gwern.net/docs/radiance/1995-benford-oldlegends.pdf ) or
> Berger's "The _Astounding_ Investigation: The Manhattan Project's
> Confrontation with Science Fiction" (
> https://www.gwern.net/docs/radiance/1984-berger.djvu ) or MacKenzie &
> Spinardi 1995's "Tacit Knowledge, Weapons Design, and the Uninvention
> of Nuclear Weapons" (
> https://www.gwern.net/docs/radiance/1995-mackenzie.pdf ). Physicists
> or people interested in future weapons development might also find it
> interesting to revisit _Fourth Generation Nuclear Weapons_ (
> http://web.elastic.org/~fche/mirrors/www.cryptome.org/2014/
> 06/wmd-4th-gen-quest.pdf
> ), and consider the array of possible nuclear weapons - turns out
> there are a lot of possible nuclear weapons going beyond classic
> fission and fusion designs (apropos of which, 'quark fusion':
> https://arxiv.org/abs/1708.02547
> https://phys.org/news/2017-11-theoretical-quark-fusion-
> powerful-hydrogen.html
> ).
>
> --
> gwern
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